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Thanks Zombie. I have discovered that the payload bay doors do have ribs, they are just overly exaggerated on the Tamiya kit. So I may try to sand them down about halfway. Trouble is, I've already glued the doors together, so I'm hoping I can do the sanding without breaking them apart and not have to glue them again.

Now let's get into the build: DAY 1 (4.5 hours) Got my work area set up and ready to start the initial building steps! My first order of business: the space shuttle main engines! Look at these circles inside the engine bells. Did they think no one would notice? Some moderate sanding removes these. A real SSME has grooves inside the engine bell. So, let's do a little scribing: There, that should do it. That's better than nothing, anyway. After gluing the engine bell halves together, I decided to etch in the insulation around the opening ring. Here's a photo reference to what

Tamiya incorrectly scribed in a panel around the star tracker on the nose. This will have to be filled in with putty after I drill out the holes. The sprue with the windows and display stand are tinted BLUE! I don't know how to correct this without attempting to fabricate my own window pieces. The display stand isn't very appealing and will require either heavy modification or some kind of scratch build (if anyone knows a company that makes model display stands, let me know!). The outside of the payload bay doors are RIBBED! Ugh! How can I correct this without having to sand it down? He

Hi everyone, I'm new to the board and I have decided to share my new shuttle build project here since I was inspired by the works of crowe-t, jetplane, niart17 and Jay Chladek. I am not new to space modeling, having built the Revell and Monogram orbiters and shuttle stacks in 1/144 and 1/72, but 20 years ago. It's probably been 8 years since I last built a model kit of any kind (an Testors SR-71 that I goofed up on and ruined the entire model). So, don't be surprised if I ask a lot of questions or make a few mistakes along the way with this kit. I plan to build the Discovery orbiter in landi